I have a freind who’s been using it to compose all the apologies they don’t actually mean. Lol

Ahh, man made horrors well within my comprehension

Ugh

It really is dead, isn’t it?

National currencies ARE fiat currencies.

Like the Chinese have been fixing the value of their currency to the dollar, and the federal reserve does exactly that thing where they inflate it at will. Or keep it at zero, and the rest of the corporations inflate it nowadays. Whichever.

Either way, it’s a scam. And I’m not saying the gold standard was a great idea either. It worked at the time, i guess? I don’t know, I wasn’t there. This fiat currency situation seems possibly workable, but I haven’t seen it doing so. At least not for anyone who isn’t already in the club.

The value of money is all made up bullshit anyway, can we at least get some healthcare out of it? Maybe some roofs? Food?

I like my friends not starving or freezing to death.

Imagine, if you will, a world where things weren’t shitty for the sake of being shitty.

Where perhaps, good things could just be good.

Ah yes, thousands and of other products built to be as or more disposable than the first element that blew.

Why do the boats keep coming, filled to the brim with garbage you never actually needed?

Eh, I’ll say it.

National currencies are a scam. No pyramid needes

Ugh. Jesus christ.

And yet, people living in vehicles are ‘homeless’ and looked down upon. They’ve left no room for anything else to be realistic

Hey, BRT is great! I’ll happily support that rather than building regular car infrastructure.

I also still vastly prefer the train. Or a ferry, if that’s an option.

Point not brought up by the other person: Bicycles. I am primarily a bike commuter, and have had one good experience with a bike and bus:

Last bus out of the city, like 2:30am. Driver has no time for our shit, tells us to bring them inside and hang on, to hell with the front rack. We didn’t even pay.

I’ve also had my bike half pop out of said front rack, get taco’d, and got absolutely nothing out of it. Totally fucked. No restitution.

Best case with bikes on a bus is you get lucky and get a spot, usually you’re better off just riding the whole way.

Trains, have room. Never not made a train with my bike.

Lol

I bet you like nuclear.

Cool, when those heating elements are shipped over here via bunker fuel. I’ll bet a boatload of those coming over is more emissions than running a NG burner for a decade

I’ll quit using gas the day shipping vessels go back to being fucking wind powered

I think you completely misunderstood their response.

Swapping a heating element is easy.

Running some pipe is also easy.

Whether the OP has gas running to the house is a whole other question

You are part of the problem here

You have no idea what you’re talking about.

I’ve been homeless, and staying the fuck away from the shelters is how you stay safe.

I spent one night in one once, and promptly went back to looking for hidden little spots where no one would be able to see me.

Unless you are the crustiest of old homebums, shelters are where your shit gets stolen and you get stabbed if you make a fuss. Or raped.

This man is a robot

Destroy. Destroy

(He’s totally blowing our cover, wtf?)

The memory of the medics explaining it to me is a little hazy, due to the heat injury. Something about potassium ion channels?

I’m a mechanic, not a medic, so I haven’t the knowledge base to know what that means, I just recall them saying things like sour patch kids are basically magic, because they do a thing the vast majority of electrolyte stuffs don’t

You may not be an old dude, but it sure seems like you already hit the wall.

Friend of mine’s father, who was seventy at the time, got hit on by an older lady at the grocery store.

Lamenting that he didn’t follow it up with her, “she was eighty, but a young eighty, if you know what I mean”

Wall? Gtfo, dumbass

Gatorade isn’t actually a good source of electrolytes though.

It’s sugar and pinch of salt.

However! There’s totally good electrolyte powders that are packed with the goods, and they’re not much pricier.

Also, sour patch kids have a weird ingredient in the coating that most electrolyte stuff doesn’t have. Potassiumsomething something, irrc?

If you’re super dehydrated while drinking a fuckload of water, stick some of them under your tongue